fun summer project at IBM

Hi. I normally don’t write directly about something I’m going to be working on because I hate vaporware, but in this case it’s necessary.

I am going to be running an IBM Extreme Blue project this summer where the intent is to build some technology to learn about how we can use Big Data techniques to analyze DevOps data. We will be using the Hadoop family of technologies for the data crunching and REST / Linked Data to help gather the data to be crunched.

It’s a twelve week project, I’ll be mentoring but the students really drive it, and we’ll also be getting a little help from my friends – my Tivoli colleagues Don Cronin and Andrew Trossman (who created some schweet new cloud technology we’ll be using), the Jazz team, Rod Smith and David Sink’s JStart team, and possibly some folks from the Yorktown Research lab.

Speaking of being crunched, we have a compressed schedule to find candidates and we already have some great candidates interviewing, so if you’re interested and you fit the profile below, please feel free to apply.

Here are the details:

When: May 23rd to Aug 12 2011

Where: Raleigh, NC

Requirements: Formal requirements here; my requirement: must be super passionate about technology and building great software